Jesus and His God

John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live [referring to his resurrection], you will live also [reckonedly made alive in this age, and actually in the resurrection]. In John 14:19, although Jesus’ words are directly to Philip, Jesus is evidently speaking to his apostles in general, when he said: “you [plural] will behold me.” When Jesus said “you”, the pronoun in the Greek is plural, signifying that he was not simply addressing Philip (John 14:9), but all of the eleven apostles. All of the eleven apostles will be members of the joint-heirs with Christ, receiving spiritual bodies in the resurrection as Jesus now has, and thus will be able to see, or behold, Jesus’ own glorious spiritual body. The world will never have that ability. Nevertheless,  Jesus made many appearances to his 11 faithful apostles (as well as to other disciples) before his ascension (Acts 1:3; 1 Corinthians 15:4-8), but the world never saw him again...

By Ronald R. Day, Senior When we point out that Jesus was put to death in the flesh , but raised in the spirit (1 Peter 3:18), trinitarians and some others claim that Luke 24:39 proves that Jesus was raised in his human body from the grave, and that Jesus is still a human being of flesh and bones to this day. It is claimed that the nature of Christ is twofold, one of God-being and another of human-being. It is claimed that only his human being died, while his God being continued to exist, and some claim that it was his God-being that raised his human body from death. Jesus certainly did raise his body for the appearances in the locked room; however, we need to distinguish his raising up his body for such appearances from his being raised in the spirit. There is no scripture that says that Jesus arose in his human body from the grave. Jehovah, the God and Father of Jesus (Ephesians 1:3), is the Only one who is the source of all (1 Corinthians 8:6), and hence the only one person who ...

John 2:19-22 John 2:19 - Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." John 2:20 - The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" John 2:21 - But he spoke of the temple of his body. John 2:22 - When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. Many believe that the above scripture says that Jesus raised himself from the dead. In actuality, there is nothing in the verse about Jesus' raising himself from the dead, but rather John speaks of Jesus' raising up the "temple of his body" after it had been destroyed for three days. The phrase "raise up" does not necessarily refer to "resurrection." The Jews demanded of our Lord by what authority he set up so high a standard as he required of them in the cleansing of the temple...